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[RVF and Triumphi – with annotations and rimario]

Overview

Current Location

Biblioteca Riccardiana
Florence
Italy

Shelfmark
Ricc. 1137
Date
fifteenth / sixteenth-century
Related to Petrarch's

RVF, Triumphi + Fame Ia

Description

Physical Description: Format

190x140 mm; III + 260 + III fols.

Physical Description: Textblock

paper; two scripts: fols. 1-191v: humanistic script, fols. 191-260: sixteenth- century script; the latter hand is also responsible for annotations and additions of missing lines and poems throughout the ms.; Petrarch’s poems with one verse per line; one architectural frame; decorated initials.

Visual Elements
Title Page

<inc> Voi chascoltate inrime sparse ilsono

Internal Description

fols. 1r-108r: RVF 1-263 with annotations;
 
fol. 108r: colophon: EXPLI[CI]T VITA FOELICITER. INCIPIT MORS;
 
fols. 108r-145v: RVF 264-349, 356-361 (RVF 361.5-14 penned by a sixteenth-century hand) with annotations;
 
fol. 146r-146v: blank;
 
fols. 147r-149v: RVF 351-354, 362, 365, 366.1-80 (RVF 362 penned by a sixteenth-century hand) with annotations;
 
fols. 150r-151v: blank;
 
fols. 152r-191v: Triumphi (order: Amoris I.1-159, Amoris III.52-105, Amoris IV.25-166, Amoris II, Pudicitie, Mortis I, Mortis II, Fame Ia, Fame I, Fame II, Fame III, Temporis, Eternitatis);
 
fol. 192r-192v: blank;
 
fols. 193r-213r: incomplete (from ‘abbia’ to ‘assa’) alphabetical index of RVF rhymes;
 
fols. 213v-260v: blank.

Material Copy

Location

Biblioteca Riccardiana
Florence
Italy

Shelfmark
Ricc. 1137
Copy seen by
Lorenzo
Sacchini
Notes

Marginal Latin annotations provide very short explanations of some poems (e.g., at fol. 65v – next to RVF 132: ‘Scribit hic in amore argume[n]tanto [—]ens’); all these annotations – as in the above example – have been affected by trimming during the re-binding process.
 
Fol. 1r has an architectural frame; initial in gold for RVF 1; some maniculae.

Bibliography

CPR, 101; Ms. Ricc, 102; Ms. Ricc 2, 27